Los Angeles to Vancouver

Unfortunatly, I haven't blogged in a while since I've been quite busy with school and life.
Just this past weekend, I actually went to Los Angeles but I'll write about that later.
Mmm... pretty much my life is just going to school and when I am free, I go hangout with friends.
A couple weeks ago, I went over to Kaworu's for her birthday party and watched the boys play Catherine~

 

I also went to some wedding trade show too~
big thanks to Jun from Kunio Photography for helping me out with that!

So about last week, I fly down to Los Angeles for my cousin's wedding reception.

Unfortunatly, I only got to go for 2.5 days so I tried to make the best out of every moment!

I was able to see my lovely friends so I'm happy about that!
Now onto the pictures~

Arriving at Los Angeles, my father and I went to go pick up the rental car.

So we waited for the shuttle to come by so that we can be driven there (as it's kinda far away).

After we picked up the car, my dad dropped me off at the LACMA so that I could go and see the Tim Burton exhibit.

I couldn't take any pictures of exhibit pieces so here's the beginning and end of it :D

 

The exhibit was alright.

I guess I wasn't as crazy about his art as I thought.

I was able to still draw out some sketches in my Fashionary though~ hoping to use it in future designs.

Possibly?

I really liked the way his style looked on the fabric manipulations though. It was cool!

By the time I look at the whole exhibit, it started to rain...

it rained in the weirdest way too.

It felt like someone was taking a gardening hose and just decided to put it on heavy watering cause the water was chunky?

It wasn't like a drizzle. They were fat water drops!

Since we were outside at this time, we took cover and chatted about where to go next.

I had to take a picture with the infamous lamp posts from LACMA though.

I would love to see this in person!

It's my dream photoshoot location for a Gundam-00 photoshoot x3

I don't know why... but I think a Setsuna x Marina one would look so romantic!

(Yes, that is my favourite pairing in 00)

After LACMA, I got to check out the "new" Vivienne Westwood store on Melrose.

It was alright? My first time walking into one!

...I touched some of the evening dresses.

Not sure if they were from the haute couture stuff but it seemed like it.

Yep.

Pretty satisfied with that. HAHAHA!!

Visited Chrome Hearts... then we went to eat ramen in Torrance.

Sang karaoke in the kotatsu room at Max! hehehe~

Met up with Miju, Steph and Monkey for some late night dinner in Korea Town.

I got a hazelnut latte and a seafood linguine.

It was delicious!

 

This is what I got at Marukai 8D

Melliesh lip gloss, a summer edition of the Hadanomy mist and Diamond Lash.

Errr... got dropped off back at home and slept like the dead!

Woke up in the morning and went for brunch with family.

We ate in Pasadena. I actually wanted to try the Melting Pot but they didn't open till 5PM.

What the heck? >__>"

So we just went to whatever was next to it.

 

It was a beautiful sunny day, unlike Vancouver where I was sure it was raining.

I got to walk around Old Town Pasadena for a bit too :D

It was actually the day of the wedding reception so it was rather hectic.

I got back to the hotel to change and redo makeup.

Dressed up my pops! It was fun :D

Daiji and Kohei came to pick me up from the restauraunt and we went to go meet Miju at Round One.

Unfortunatly he couldn't go in so we ended up going to Guppy's nearby.

We wanted to go take purikura :< Next time I guess!

For the last day, I drove to Santa Monica and pretty much that was it.

Went to LAX after that to fly home that evening.

I was sad that my weekend came to an end so quickly!

I had so much fun seeing everyone~

I can't wait to go back in like... 2.5 months!

I just have to endure the rest of this school semester first. >A<

Stuff I bought from the Sanrio store 8D

As for today, I got to meet up with David.

I tried curling my hair with the awesome curler Miju got me.

Yeah... I totally burned my palm~ hehehe

Oh well. It's fine now!

Pretty happy with the results but I think if I had to do that everyday in the morning, I wouldn't.

Since I'm slow, it's rather time consuming as I have to individually curl each portion by hand.

I'll post a picture/review or something of the curler later.

Before meeting up with David, I picked up my order from Karen's house.

I actually forgot I was driving to her house and ended up going to the mall...

but then I backtracked. Yep.

It was annoying driving back to the mall though.

I was practically road raging because people are stupid!

Or just people with too much attitude.

Anyways! I ranted enough about it to David so the world doesn't need to know XD

I took purikura with David and then we went to go eat a late lunch nearby the mall.

Drove him back to his car after that and lingered around the mall some more~

I totally ended up buying 2 faux fur coats... and a sweater.

I was thinking I wouldn't buy anything too! Oh well D:

It's nice!

I wanted to eat dinner at this point but didn't wanna eat alone so Elle invited me to go eat with her and her friend.

I met up with Elle only to drop off a present I picked up in LA at first but she thought it'd be fine :3

Happy she invited me.

I didn't grab dinner though-- I ended up getting bubble tea and a sweet crepe.

Speaking of which-- where did I put the bubble tea? LOL

I'm gonna have to go check after this post ~__~"

After that, we parted ways and I went home.

Was getting tired at this point.

Left picture is one of the faux fur coats plus sweater.
Dresses on the right are from the order Karen did us.

 

Wigs~ it's my Miaka and Karakuri Burst Rin wig.
Ao no Exorcist patches as well.

Uhh... I didn't take a picture of the Coastal Scents order that David brought up for me.

I will do that after I resolve a certain issue.

...but here are the dresses worn :D

  

I think the dresses are cute! I'm really happy with them~

I'll probably order more sometime in the future.

The quality isn't too bad.

I guess cotton is cotton but it's not a super thin cotton which is good!

For the white dress, it feels more like layers of voile than a cotton broadcloth.

So it's great~ I think voile is better quality than broadcloth... ^^"

Anyways. That's it for now!

I'm going to bed-- goodnight~

Back to fashion school!

Unfortunatly, my summer has come to an end and school activities started again for me last week~

This semester, my courses aren't very heavy and it seems that I am doing well so far.

Since I have a bit of free time, I shop a lot too orz

So the cake above was from a couple weeks ago for Rusty's(from Gundam Seed) birthday party xD

I think the Sunday of that same week, Bam and I went to the nightmarket to watch Jin's band show.

But like I said, I've been shopping even after class xD"

I got these on the first day of school I think after class?

Bought a long dress and faux fur scarf from H&M and a pair of boots for Fall/Winter.

Since I also took off my Accounting class on Wednesdays, I went to the hair salon to get a new colour.

My roots were really showing since I didn't dye my hair for... 5 months? ^^"

It was pretty bad but not too obvious at the same time because it's a medium golden brown.

So this is my new hair colour now~ really dry though U___U

Got gelato afterwards and treated my mother too n___n

It was super hot that day so it was awesome<3

Then the Friday I had dinner with Elle at The Noodle Box.

It was really yummy and I think I'll try to go there in the future again~

Did some shopping before I met up with Elle at Lush too xD

Got a new concealer, some bath bombs and a face mask~

We went to watch the sunset in the beach afterwards while having frozen yogurt.

It was really cold and I'm pretty sure I caught a cold/flu because of that XD"

Suffering from that pretty badly now... *clears nose*

Lastly, we finally reached today-- zooming through my blog since I don't really feel like going into details.

I got my Beauties Factory 120 eyeshadow palette order in my mailbox.

Bought another 2 palettes from Coastal Scents today too along with a contouring set and a brush case.

I actually find the pigmentation on the Beauties Factory palette to be rather lacking in colour?

There's a lot of it but without using an eyeshadow primer-- thus far, it isn't very pigmented.

I'll try it again in a couple days to see whether it works better with a primer.

Regardless, I decided to purchase the original 88 Coastal Scents eyeshadow palette AND the ultra shimmer palette~

I sent it to my friend in the states so I won't be finding out how that goes until early October unfortunatly XD"

I also picked up 2 NYX jumbo eye pencils and a Maybelline Eye Studio shadow.

I actually wanted to say I really like their new palette because it's kind of like a KATE dupe.

I already used the Pink Punch for the past couple weeks now but just picked up the Caffeine Rush colour today.

Shall try it in the morning but I like neutral tones for everyday life so it works well n__n

The fancy rolliing suit case is for school(for pattern making primarily)~

Lots of shopping this week orz

Can't wait for my Coastal Scents order xD

OTANJOUBI OMEDETOU RUSTYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So it's technically Rusty's birthday today x3

My friends and I are going to celebrate it with a party later tonight hahaha!

I'll blog with pictures and stuff later-- for all you have to know is that Rusty is a character from Gundam Seed

^___^

He dies in the 1st episode :-) FOREVER SWEET 16.

Anywayssss~~~

I guess I'll talk about Lights & Cameras event.

I worked on my Lotte cosplay 4 days before the event.

Why do I always leave things to the last minute? -3-"

In anycase, it was really warm that day and I didn't eat brunch so I wasn't feeling too well.

I drove to QEP and decided to change in my car there...

omg I thought I was going to pass out from heat stroke xD

Shortly after I finished changing, I bumped into Shiyu and Carol~

whilst Shiyu was pulled aside for some photos, I snapped a shot with Carol.

After that, I met up with my group of friends and we just sat around.

I got some photos taken from Rico & Celia again.

There were some photographers that helped me take pictures as well--

You can see my featured Lotte cosplay at SUTORAIKUanime.

After that, I was getting really fatigued so I changed out of costume and sat till it was time for our goodbye dinner party for Heather.

We ate at Red Robin's and while we were talking about Gundam Seed near the end of our dinner, the manager came up to us and asked us to quiet down XD"

So we ended up leaving to go to bubble tea instead.

We continued our Gundam Seed cosplay plans/chat at the bubble tea place we went to~

So now we have epic Gundam Seed plans. I actually hadn't watched past episode 7 during the chat. So I'm trying to catch up since I've been forced into cosplaying Cagalli (I joke you not. Force is a great description!) I really wanted to cosplay Athrun... I guess I'll do that on my own another time >3<

I got my Nanami wig and S-class/A-class patches from Karen~ can't wait to cosplay Uta-pri!♥

I seriously absolutely am in LOVE with the series.

I'm reading the game plot right now for each character and so far I've read Sho's, Ittoki's, and Tokiya's but I have to say that Sho's is seriously the best out of the 3.

Mostly because it's really touching and he's adorable. It may be biased though.

I just think he's the cutest one of all xD

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Then yesterday, I had dinner at Anton's with Kero, Ashlee, Lisa and Bam.

It was super filling but awesome~

I kind of want to go back again since I loveeeee pasta but I'm not sure if I want to wait in that kind of line ^^"

While waiting in line, I realized that I was wearing a poncho lol

Then I screamed to Bam "ki ni naru aitsu wa poncho~ nuuuu" xD and started dancing a bit.

I love Fukujun♥

Anyways, when I got home--

I kinda wanted to take a picture with my awesome mask that I've never shown others.

Anyways, that's all I'll blog for now. A bit tired-- gonna watch some more Seed and sleep.

Work tomorrow, then RUSTY PARTY!!!<3

Until next time``